“Quickie will say a few things here and there in the room, but just his presence on the ice and in the room is huge,” Drew Doughty said. “Obviously goalies are kind of quieter guys — they kind of stay to themselves type [of] thing — but having Quickie back is just amazing for us. The confidence grows. Cal [Petersen] did a great job for us, though. He was amazing. He won us some games we had no business winning, and that’s what Quickie’s done for us forever.”
Kovalchuk was moved to the third line, with Adrian Kempe and Matt Luff, in line rushes, and was on the first power-play unit.